AntimatterShield

Lifeboat Foundation AntimatterShield

By the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory
Board.
This is an ongoing program so you may submit suggestions to [email protected].

Overview

Albert Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 shows that mass is a
concentrated form of energy. Fission and fusion reactions convert just
a fraction of 1 percent of their mass into energy. But there is a way
to convert matter into energy at nearly 100 percent efficiency: Combine
matter with antimatter, its mirror twin. Physicists have already
created tiny
quantities of antimatter by smashing subatomic particles together at
near-light speeds. Scientists at CERN, the European physics facility in
Switzerland, have recently managed to create millions of antihydrogen
atoms.

A world with antimatter bombs could easily be a world that becomes a
new asteroid belt orbiting the sun. This program would be designed to
prevent such uses of antimatter.